Woman in the Dunes DVD9_Custom+DVD9_CriterionCollection#394

Suna no onna / Woman in the Dunes / Criterion Collection#394

«The most provocative picture ever made»

Country: Japan

Studio: Teshigahara Productions, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Year of release: 1964

Duration:02:27:14

Production:The Criterion Collection#394

Translation:One-voice (voiceover) Oleg Vorotilin

Subtitles:English, Russian (Japanese collection, Skuf)

Premiere (world):02/15/1964

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Starring: Eiji Okada - Niki Junpei
Kyoko Kishida - woman
Hiroko Ito - Niki's wife
Koji Mitsui
Sen Yano
Ginzo Sekiguchi Robert Dunham
Kiyohiko Ichiha
Hideo Kanze
Hiroyuki Nishimoto

Description:A self-absorbed entomologist collects insects on the Japanese coast. Several locals meet him and offer him a place to stay for the night with a woman. They lead Nicky to a hut at the bottom of a sand pit, where he must climb down a rope ladder. And the next morning it turns out that the stairs have been removed.

Script: Kobo Abe, Eiko Yoshida

Producer: Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Oono

Cinematographer: Hiroshi Segawa

Composer: Toru Takemitsu

Artist: Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki

Editing: Fusako Shuzui

Bonuses Disk 1-2

--New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
--Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
--Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
--Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
--Trailer
--PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1978 interview with Teshigahara

Menu: English, static, voiced. Release type: DVD9 (Custom) + DVD9 Container: DVD-Video Video: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR, 5543 Kbps, 23,976 (24000/1001) frames/sec Audio 1: Russian: AC3, 2 ch, 48.0 KHz, 192 Kbps / Single-voice (voiceover) Oleg Vorotilin Audio 2: Japanese: AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 384 Kbps / Original Subtitle format: prerendered (DVD/IDX+SUB)